Justice for Some — Noura Erakat — A Great Book!

Noura Erakat’s: Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine is an incredibly well written complement to Rashid Khalidi’s The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (https://www.georgemarx.org/2024/02/the-hundred-years-war-rashid-khalidi.html + Tareq Baconi’s Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (https://www.georgemarx.org/2024/02/hamas-contained-tareq-baconis-excellent.html).

The book is tremenously well researched! It explains how Israel’s leadership has consistently over multiple decades used international law as a “weapon”. The Holocaust is one bullet. The (generally not reality based) Israeli (and other) Jews fears of Palestinians are a second bullet. Empathy for “poor” (sic) Israel is a third bullet. Deeply woven in are the grossly racist narratives of the Palestinian People which Israel and its close “buddy”, the leadership of The United States (and many others in our country) readily put forth.

What is so devastating in reading this book is the thorough, methodical, consistent patterns of Israeli actions, in contrast to the simplistic, often focused (solely) upon the moments actions of Palestinian leadership. The United States is the enforcer of the distorted reality put forth by the Israeli narrative which comes from the government and the media.

There are moments recurring over and over again that imply that Israel might have done something wrong. Such moments are rapidly quashed…